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Re: At least the OSH boxcar has been saved
Author: Craig Tambo
Date: 08-23-2018 - 13:57
Carol L Voss Wrote:
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> Ken Middlebrook Wrote:
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> > I have been answering reporters' questions
> > regarding OSH history. Soon, the boxcar will
> > become the largest physical reminder of the
> store.
> > Sad.
> >
> >
> [historysanjose.org]
>
> > ry-park/railroad/
> The boxcar is really a mess. Maybe you could get a
> group of people from the original investor
> families such as us to donate the money to
> restore it.
> C
> PS— never knew why the model boxcar they had some
> years back is brown and doesnt bear any
> resemblance to the original. We have an HO model
> of the original which Al gave me not too long
> before he died.
The G-scale boxcar OSH used to sell was a standard Bachmann model (wooden, narrow-gauge prototype)that was simply lettered for OSH over the molded-in brown color. I believe another company (perhaps LGB) at one time sold a model of a steel car in the correct colors.
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> Ken Middlebrook Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > I have been answering reporters' questions
> > regarding OSH history. Soon, the boxcar will
> > become the largest physical reminder of the
> store.
> > Sad.
> >
> >
> [historysanjose.org]
>
> > ry-park/railroad/
> The boxcar is really a mess. Maybe you could get a
> group of people from the original investor
> families such as us to donate the money to
> restore it.
> C
> PS— never knew why the model boxcar they had some
> years back is brown and doesnt bear any
> resemblance to the original. We have an HO model
> of the original which Al gave me not too long
> before he died.
The G-scale boxcar OSH used to sell was a standard Bachmann model (wooden, narrow-gauge prototype)that was simply lettered for OSH over the molded-in brown color. I believe another company (perhaps LGB) at one time sold a model of a steel car in the correct colors.
